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Hobo life

Hobo life

DOMUS ACADEMY

Master in Product Design, 2014/15

with: Lorenzo Bustillos, Irene Sartor; for:Bastard

When you are a skater you have only one mission in your life: do skate. Wherever, whenever, however: do skate. Even if it requires moving far away, in a place where you know nobody, with no assurance that you will find a roof over your head or food for your stomach: do skate. Because skateboarding is not just a sport, it is not just a hobby...it is a community, a way of living, an attitude, a whole world where the comfort zone doesn’t exist. Only adventure.

This workshop in collaboration with Bastard, a Milan-based snowboard, skateboard and street-wear brand, challenged the students to investigate, support and improve the hobo life-style of a skater, which is that typical approach to life that characterize this community, based on urban survival and couch-camping attitude.

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Scumbag

Igor Tolkach
Nien-Chen Lee
Mustafa Yalman
Hanishi Shah

Scumbag is an attempt to design the most simplistic way to keep necessity garments fresh for a travelling user, without having the trouble to go through a tedious laundry cycle each time. The aim is to suggest an everyday object they already use, with an alternative function to enhance their survival. In this case a simple bastard style carry bag turns by choice into your personal washing machine whenever you decide to keep it clean! With the use of simple waterproofing and scrubbing materials to contain water and clothes, while converting any application of kinetic energy for the movement of clothes inside the bag, keeping clothes clean is now just a piece of cake.

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When you are a skater you have only one mission in your life: do skate. Wherever, whenever, however: do skate. Even if it requires moving far away, in a place where you know nobody, with no assurance that you will find a roof over your head or food for your stomach: do skate. Because skateboarding is not just a sport, it is not just a hobby...it is a community, a way of living, an attitude, a whole world where the comfort zone doesn’t exist. Only adventure.

This workshop in collaboration with Bastard, a Milan-based snowboard, skateboard and street-wear brand, challenged the students to investigate, support and improve the hobo life-style of a skater, which is that typical approach to life that characterize this community, based on urban survival and couch-camping attitude.